Blogs
Introduction We had a monorepo. Frontend, three backend services, a couple of shared libraries, all living in one repo. Great for developers who want to change an API and its caller in a single commit. Rough on CI. The problem showed up slowly and then all at once. Every push, no matter how tiny, kicked off the whole pipeline. Fixed a...
Introduction In the first part, we explored Palo Alto firewalls, their use cases, and different ways to achieve high availability in AWS. To learn more click here. In this second part, we’ll walk through a complete end-to-end setup of an Active/Passive Palo Alto HA deployment within the same Availability Zone. Architecture ...
Introduction As more organizations move their workloads to the cloud, traditional security models are no longer enough. Modern cloud environments need security that can keep up with changing infrastructure and workloads. The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) stands out by bringing enterprise-level security...
Introduction EC2 Image Builder is an AWS service that automates creating, updating, and deploying your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). EC2 Image Builder creates a pipeline for Linux or Windows Server images for use with Amazon EC2. The pipeline manages all stages, including image creation, maintenance, validation, sharing, and...
Introduction HashiCorp Packer is one of the most popular open-source machine image builders. It helps engineers define infrastructure as code, installing software and layering security updates into AWS Machine Images, or AMIs. Packer is focused on image building. It has no capabilities around testing, scheduling, AWS notifications, or...
